May Belle "Babe" Brown

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Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. today in Hillcrest Cemetery in McLean with the Rev. Thacker Haynes, pastor of First United Methodist Church in McLean, officiating. Burial will be in Hillcrest Cemetery in McLean by Robertson Funeral Directors.

Mrs. Brown was born May 14, 1918, in Avery, Collingsworth County, to Jesse Harris and Hester Ellen Holcomb Grogan. She had been a resident of the McLean area all of her life.

She married Clyde Newton Brown in 1938 in McLean. She had worked at Marie Foundations for 25 years and then at Corrines Fashions for 15 years prior to her retirement.

She was a member of the Red Hatters, the United Methodist Women, the McLean Young at Heart Senior Citizens Association, and the First United Methodist Church in McLean.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband in 2000; two sons, Richard Clyde Brown and Ronald Alan Brown; three brothers, Hugh Grogan, Jesse "Doc" Grogan and Ross Grogan; and a sister, Mary Francis Powell.

Survivors include two grandchildren, Quinton Brown and wife Michele of McLean and Robin Luna of Shamrock; seven great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren.